President Biden’s commutation of 37 federal death row inmates has reignited the national debate over capital punishment. In ...

President-elect Donald Trump promised on Tuesday to “vigorously pursue” capital punishment after President Joe Biden commuted ...

Sister Helen Prejean is probably not the archetype that comes to mind when you think of a nun, yet she is probably the ...

The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), under the Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs, has released its annual ...

In its history, the Granite State has executed 26 people. In 2019, New Hampshire ended capital punishment. Was that the right ...

A lawmaker wants the death penalty back — by firing squad, rather than by lethal injection. House Bill No. 11211, filed by ...

Capital punishment also hasn’t proven to be much of any deterrent. And it runs the risk, however small, of taking an innocent ...

Zimbabwe has abolished the death penalty, a widely expected move in a country that last carried out the punishment nearly two decades ago ...

Indian citizen Nimisha Priya is facing a death row for a murder in Yemen. What options and legal remedies does she have now to avoid death row?

Zimbabwe has officially abolished the death penalty, marking a significant shift for a nation that last carried out an ...

David Ware, for the slaying of a Tulsa police officer. A handful of death-penalty cases are pending, including in ...